ENVI SCI CH 1 VOCAB REVIEW

gives value to all living things.

• Ecocentrism

• Anthropocentrism

• hypothesis

• Biocentrism

judges actions in terms if their benefit or harm to the integrity of whole ecological systems, which consists of both living and non-living elements and the relationships among them.

• hypothesis

• Ecocentrism

• Biocentrism

• environmentalism

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

all the living and nonliving things with which an organism .

• environmental ethics

• sustainable

• environment

• peer review

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

the study of how the natural world works, how the environment affects humans, and how humans affect the environment.

• dependent variable

• independent variable

• environmental ethics

• environmental science

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

A series of steps followed to solve problems including collecting data, formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, and stating conclusions.

• Scientific Method

• dependent variable

• controlled study

• environmental science

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

the environmental impact of an individual or population in terms of the total amount of land and water required (1) to provide the raw materials the individual or population consumes and (2) to dispose of or recycle the waste the individual or population produces.

• environmental science

• ecological footprint

• environmental ethics

• "tragedy of the commons"

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

a resources that formed much more slowly than it is used

• independent variable

• renewable natural resources

• nonrenewable natural resources

• controlled study

information collected using scientific methods

• controlled study

• independent variable

• ethics

• data

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-PS1-2